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Last night, Katie Couric made her CBS Evening News debut. Overall, the newscast was perfectly fine - no banter, a long Lara Logan feature on going in Taliban-run Afghanistatn, an interview (sorta like The Daily Show, just without the humor) with the NY Times' Thomas L. Friedman, a segment from Morgan "30 Days" Spurlock, and what the public has really been waiting for, pictures of baby Suri Cruise (she has a crazy head of hair!). Sure, people tuned in for last night's broadcast, but will they tune in every day? Are you going to watch? And are you going to help Katie pick a sign-off?
As for critical roundup: The NY Times' Alessandra Stanley's appraisal of Couric notes that she handled things "calmly and competently," but says that the "woman who stood out most last night" was chief foreign correspondent Logan. Stanely called her "unusually pretty," and in the Washington Post TV columnist Tom Shales' review, he calls Logan "intensely telegenic." Further confirmation of the verdict that Logan is a stone-cold fox. Shales said the show was too full of features, didn't care for Spurlock, thought the Suri pictures were stooping to the level of Entertainment Tonight, and essentially said there was "acres and acres of room for improvement." Oh, and that Couric's white jacket made her looky chunky - MEOW. (We do appreciate Katie for wearing white after Labor Day, but that's just us.)
The Daily News' David Bianculli liked the show, except for the interview segment. Newsday's Verne Gay said that Couric and the newscast were fine, but "some viewers could be excused for wondering, 'what happened in the world today?'" The Hollywood Reporter's headline: "Couric's cuddly news a big disappointment." And TV Newser has roundups of reviews in 1, 2, 3 posts.
And the Post reports that Couric had a post-debut party at the Hudson Hotel.
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I really don't see why everyone is making a big deal about this.
But its nice to have someone other then that old curmudgeon at the desk.
It was more Dateline than Evening News. Expect to see "To Catch a Predator", CBS version soon.
i thought it seemed slow and there was too much of katie talking.
but i did see that they managed to get a short skirt on her and plenty of shots of her in it into the broadcast.
All this week on CBS evening news !
Katie Couric investigates !
"All seemed well in this sleepy little New England town, but the special of the day at this crab shack, was murder..?!"
Bring back Bob!
Who the hell likes Couric anyway?
Positive comment:
She will last longer than MyNetworkTV.
Why can't she write her own damn sign-off?
Couric's center of gravitas located somewhere between her right wing flab and her right calf muscle. Rather Rather. Go ahead Swiftboaters, start spinning.
Does anyone even watch the Evening News anymore? I can't shake the nagging feeling we're all being prodded to care about this by the dying Leviathans of network TV.
Only BBC News. They tell me everything I want to know thats happening around the world plus more and they have none of the bullshit NBC and CBS seem to offload on their viewers.
Are the networks still required to show news? I seem to recall the government made this a requirement back in the 40s or 50s in return for the networks' free use of the spectrum which, in theory, belong to the people.
Network news suffers from the same problems as the rest of American industry. The idiots at the top keep 99% of the money for themselves. If Couric took a million less they could hire 10 qualified reporters or 20 fact checkers.
The evening shows arent the same as there were say 10+ years ago. People have the cable news channels and the internet to get the national news now.
BBC News, always! Back to you Daljit.
Am I the only one who thinks Lara Logan is unprofessional? She treats her interview subjects with a Entertainment Tonight meets Fox News-like head-tilt / brow-furrow. She's too earnest and her manner is distracting. Distracting like a child actor trying to sound sophisticated on TV. Take her away, please.